Deuteronomy 12:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

Shall

1 Chronicles 4:10

As he hath

I will

General references

Deuteronomy 19:8

Bible References

Shall

Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.

As he hath

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea.

“If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers—

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

For I will

drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.

I will

“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”

The rabble who were among them had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

The heart of King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

David had a craving and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!”

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

For He has satisfied the thirsty soul,
And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.

My soul is crushed

with longing

After Your ordinances at all times.

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

General references

“If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers—